You’re invited to join Youth Collaboratory and our partner, the Center for Court Innovation (CCI), on Wednesday, February 16, 2022 from 12:30 PM – 2 PM ET for this first part of a three-part learning series.
Many survivors of Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) become entangled in the juvenile legal system on dependency and/or delinquency matters and do not receive adequate services to address their complex needs. Black girls are at a higher risk for exploitation, trafficking, and arrest and often find themselves in programs that do not meet their needs or leverage their strengths.
Juvenile legal players and community-based agencies are uniquely positioned to assist CSEC survivors and provide them with meaningful and restorative support and services. This panel will feature subject matter experts from California, Miami, and New York and offer practical strategies and resources to help community-based providers and juvenile legal stakeholders improve outcomes for CSEC survivors.
In this webinar we will:
- Discuss the importance of judicial leadership when developing a holistic community response to CSEC;
- Highlight effective strategies for multi-disciplinary collaboration and strategic partnerships;
- Provide tips on providing trauma-informed support to young survivors navigating the juvenile legal system; and
- Highlight culturally responsive and restorative approaches that center Black girls and their leadership
Our panelists:
- Judge Stacy Boulware Eurie was appointed to the Superior Court of California in June 2007. Prior to her appointment to the bench, Judge Boulware Eurie’s legal practice areas included complex political and constitutional law, governmental affairs, state and federal employment defense, administrative law and criminal defense. As the Presiding Juvenile Court Judge from 2010 to 2018, she worked with youth and families appearing in both juvenile justice and child welfare cases to protect the child and the public and to preserve and strengthen children’s families.
- Tanisha “Wakumi” Douglas is the Founding Executive Director of S.O.U.L. Sisters Leadership Collective, which builds leadership with systems-involved girls & TGNC youth, in both Miami and NYC where she raised over $8 million. As the daughter of an undocumented immigrant who served 33 years in prison, Wakumi has dedicated her life to building leadership among youth most impacted by mass incarceration and other oppressive systems.
- Dominique McNally, LMSW is the Clinical Coordinator at the Queens Community Justice Center (QCJC). She came to QCJC from Washington D.C where she provided crisis intervention to decrease out of home placement for at-risk youth. Ms. McNally has a background working with the Juvenile specialty court in DC which involved youth with behavioral and mental health concerns as well as CSEC involvement.
- Shernette Pink joined the QCJC in 2007. As the Program Manager for Family Court operations, she oversees the Justice Center’s alternative to detention program, gender responsive programs, a parent support program, and a mentoring program for young people involved in the justice system. She brings her trauma-informed, strengths-based approach to empower young people to obtain skills to navigate challenges, commit to a set of self-determined goals, and assist them in building skills to decrease high-risk behavior.
- Kenaisha Warren joined the QCJC in July 2018 where she worked as a parent coach providing support to parents whose children were court involved. In February 2020, she transitioned to her current role as a case manager and mentor for the Queens HOPE program. Ms. Warren provides support and resources for young people. Ms. Warren is very passionate about supporting and educating youth on their self-worth.
Learn more about how Youth Collaboratory works to prevent and reduce the victimization of Black girls vulnerable to sex trafficking by expanding the skills of program providers and other stakeholders working to prevent the trafficking of Black girls.
